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God's Royal Family JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2020 goodnewsmag.org Leading United Methodists to a Faithful Future GOD’S ROYAL FAMILY God is birthing a new Methodist Movement, page 14 JF20-CL.indd 1 6/16/21 10:46 AM JF20-CL.indd 2 6/16/21 10:46 AM Contents Essentials Features 2 Editorial 10 God’s royal family It’s time to move on Bob Kaylor expounds on our destiny within God’s royal family. 4 Light of the world 21 Jesus saves 6 News from United Methodism Kenneth Levingston preaches on his U.S. dips below majority membership; steadfast faith in the resurrection. Hispanic growth trends up The Rev. Bob Kaylor 24 Jesus, more than a friend speaks at the WCA Global 8 Mortals & the Divine Nako Kellum explains her journey Gathering, page 10. Christ on the wrist from Shintoism to Christianity and discovering a God closer than a friend. 42 Missionary God Max A. Wilkins on the variety of ways the 28 Me, a theologian? church can reflect God’s missionary heart. Cara Nicklas makes the case that all Christians are called to be theologians. 44 Wouldn’t it be nice... BJ Funk on the legacy of the infectious 32 Raising the dead in church kindness of Mr. Rogers. Shane Bishop exhorts United Methodists to step out in faith with the Holy Spirit. The Rev. Nako Kellum, page 24. News & Analysis 35 Witness to the world Delegates to the Wesleyan Covenant Association Legislative Assembly 14 God is birthing a new Methodist affirmed a statement on social witness. movement Keith Boyette lays out a vision for a new 36 Wither Sunday school? Methodist movement at the Wesleyan Donald Haynes explains the decline of Covenant Association Global Gathering. Sunday school within Methodism. 18 Turning point 38 Rekindling language of the soul William J. Abraham spells out the unique for kids distinction of this time in Wesleyan history. Justus Hunter on teaching children about God. The Rev. Shane Bishop, 40 U.S. Regional Conference: Defeated page 32. All profile photos idea revisited “Give me one hundred preachers who on this page taken by Mark Moore. Thomas Lambrecht makes the case fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing against a U.S. Regional Conference. but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.” – John Wesley January/February 2020 | 1 JF20-CL.indd 1 6/16/21 10:46 AM Rob Renfroe [email protected] Editorial IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON It’s time. General Conference 2020 will convene in just over It’s time to redefine “winning.” In the past a “win” for tradi- four months. It’s time for a definitive solution to our differenc- tionalists was keeping the Book of Discipline true to Scripture es over the authority of Scripture, marriage, and sexual ethics. and finding a way to make the bishops enforce it. A win for progressives was changing the church’s sexual ethics so that It’s time for General Conference to admit we can no longer be pastors could marry gay couples and practicing gay persons one church. Fortunately, most of us are now willing to admit could be ordained and appointed to serve local churches. “Cen- this sad truth. There are still a few – primarily bishops, bureau- trists,” I believe, thought of winning as making enough room crats, and institutionalists – who are unwilling to acknowledge for all views and practices – and to do so in such a way that what the rest of us know to be true. Like Rip Van Winkle, wak- their churches would not be disrupted by these issues or have ing up from a twenty-year slumber during which he missed the to vote on which sexual ethic to adopt. American Revolution, they seem to have slept through nearly fifty years of debate and the destructive vitriol of St. Louis. So, It’s time to admit the ways we have defined winning in the past they offer an outdated regional conference solution that leaders has kept us embroiled in an ugly and destructive battle. Each of all theological perspectives have said is a non-starter. group has believed their views are true to the will of God. So, they have reasoned, it is only right that they fight to control the But most of us are willing to admit we are not one and no plan future of the church and create a denomination that embraces can keep us together. UM-Forward, a leading progressive cau- their beliefs. cus within the UM Church, has proposed legislation that would dissolve the denomination and create four new churches. The After fifty years of fighting to win the church, where are we? At UMC Next Plan, the work of primarily centrist leaders, pro- a place where the church has lost. The UM Church in the U.S. poses liberalizing the denomination’s sexual ethics and allow- has declined precipitously in membership, attendance, and fi- ing traditionalists to leave. What’s known as “The Indianapolis nances throughout this debate, and even more rapidly since the Plan,” put together by a coalition of progressives, centrists, and special General Conference last February. St. Louis presented traditionalists, calls for a respectful and amicable separation us in the worst light possible to lost people needing the love of and the fair distribution of the denomination’s assets. God and the blessings of Wesleyan Christianity. Great work is being done by local congregations, but the UM Church is not It’s time to admit we are not one church. Instead of attempting winning. to hold us together by coercion, trust clauses, or out-of-touch plans that deny the reality of our differences, it’s time to admit As long ago as 2004, Dr. William Hinson called upon United we cannot be true to ourselves and walk with each other. Most Methodists to admit the truth that we would never be united of us are now willing to acknowledge this reality. and proposed that the best solution was amicable separation. Castigated, condemned, and misrepresented, Hinson believed 2 | Good News JF20-CL.indd 2 6/16/21 10:46 AM After fifty years of fighting to win the church, where are we? At a place where the church has lost. United Methodists would win not by fighting the same battle ops are held accountable for their actions primarily by other over and over again (which is exactly what we have done) but bishops in their particular jurisdiction. This means that liberal by setting each other free to pursue ministry in the ways we bishops are answerable to other liberal bishops who applaud believe God would have us do. their disobedience and often share in it. A glaring example is a Western Jurisdiction bishop who is married to another woman It’s time to admit that a win for United Methodists is not one and boasted of performing more than 50 same-sex weddings. side out-voting or excommunicating the other. This is what In spite of a Judicial Council ruling stating that it was unlawful the UMC Next Plan would do. It creates winners and losers. to consecrate her, she remains in office. Centrists win and stay. Progressives win and can stay. Together they keep the spoils – the name and the assets of the church. It is frustrating for traditionalists to be in the majority and for Traditionalists lose and must leave – on terms dictated by the our views and the laws of the church to be so easily disregard- “winners.” ed. But that’s reality and so is the fact that despite our greatly outnumbering progressives and “centrists,” we will never have But the UM Church wins only if there is a negotiated, respect- the votes to elect orthodox bishops in the more liberal jurisdic- ful separation which allows annual conferences and local tions. Consequently, the disobedience of pastors, annual con- churches to choose what direction their ministry will follow. ferences, and bishops in these areas will continue with no real This is what the Indianapolis Plan proposes – an amicable solu- consequences. tion agreed upon before General Conference that is fair to all. No repeat of St. Louis, no winners or losers, no side getting its It’s time to admit that it’s time, past time, to move on. Fighting way at the expense of others or forcing its will upon those with the same battle the same way will produce the same results – whom they disagree. Power politics is not a win for the UM anger, dysfunction and a church that is focused on itself rather Church, and it’s not the way of Jesus. than its mission. It’s time to stop denying reality and devising plans that act as if we are not irrevocably divided. It’s time to It’s time to admit reality. Actually, a couple of realities. One is admit that we are not one church. It’s time to stop trying to win that the vast majority of United Methodists are traditionalists. by outvoting the other side. In a UMCOM survey of U.S. United Methodists nearly half of those responding identified themselves as traditionalists – It’s time to trust God. We should do all we can to negotiate a many more than those who defined themselves as centrist or plan that gives each segment of the church a fair portion of the progressive. Today more than half of all United Methodists live general church assets, particularly ensuring the continued cru- outside of the United States.
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